I love my SAP

Technology Posted 6 Dec 2011 by Daniel Kraft

Technology is an awesome industry and software is the core of everything. You can create wonderful websites, beautiful apps but there is one thing for certain: SAP is boring. Don’t get me wrong, in my former life we had a great business with SAP and SAP clients but let’s face it, it’s German software.

From Intern to CEO

Speaking of the past, I ran into Markus Dopp about a year ago. He is the CEO and co-founder of Sitrion. He was also one of the very first people we hired at RedDot - as an intern at the time - to help in our US operations. When I asked him what he is doing and what his dreams are, he had a straight answer: build the greatest company and be more successful than you. Whoa, that’s what I call an entrepreneur! 

I love my SAP

So we kept talking for some time and things became even more interesting. His business is focused on making the life of knowledge workers so easy that they actually start loving SAP processes. Sitrion’s tag line is “I love my SAP software”. Somehow they figured a way to turn all the SAP based processes into a great user experience. They started with Microsoft (Outlook, SharePoint) but he assures me that they can take it to any environment. You can imagine that I had to learn more and so I invited him to our offices to share some of his ideas and his vision.

Meanwhile we got so excited about his company that we started to support him in expanding his business. Earlier this year we opened the US office, on the Microsoft campus in Redmond and he was able to close some major deals, taking the US business to a size equal to the European business. As I recall, in my days it took us a couple of years to achieve the same.

Isn’t that an awesome story about your own intern that turns into the CEO? Makes me feel old but more in a grandfatherly kind of way :-) I will be certainly making sure that we keep track on how he is doing, and we’ll do our best to support another great entrepreneur.

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